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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 16, 2024?
34 free events take place on Thursday, May 16 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out May 16 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of May . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 16, 2024?
34 free events take place on Thursday, May 16 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out May 16 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of May . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 16, 2024
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | October 7th, 06:29AM: An Immersive Exhibition on Nova Music Festival Massacre
To celebrate the end of his two years of service as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces' paratrooper division, Tomer Meir joined 13 of his friends at the Nova Musica Festival on the weekend of October 6 in Re'im in southern Israel. It was his first ever music festival. "It was the best moments of my life. I can't explain the state we were in," the 21-year-old told the New York Jewish Week. "It was pure love -- people dancing, laughing, smiling. All the good stuff that we're living for." Until 6:29 a.m. on Saturday morning. The red alerts, the rockets and the running. "The music stopped. The rockets started. We started running for our lives," Meir said. Meir is a survivor of the Nova Music Festival Massacre, where Hamas militants killed 364 festival-goers and took at least 40 hotstages on the morning of Oct. 7. Six months after the attack, Meir is in New York sharing his story as part of an interactive exhibit about that day, which he says is helping him heal. The Nova Musical Festival exhibition, titled October 7th, 06:29AM, is an immersive step into what it was like to be at the festival when it was attacked. Screens show clips from the attack on Nova are displayed next to personal and camping items taken from the festival recreating the festival layout. The exhibit, which debuted in Tel Aviv for 10 weeks in December, was created by Israeli designers and cultural producers, many of whom were producers with the Nova Music Festival itself. It was brought to New York with the help of Scooter Braun, the Jewish-American music producer and philanthropist. The exhibit recreates the visuals and sounds of the Nova Music Festival massacre. But the New York version is in some ways "more intense," according to Yael Finkelstein, a volunteer who collected items from the Nova site and helped set up both the Tel Aviv and New York exhibit. New elements at the New York exhibit include dozens of video testimonies from survivors, Zaka volunteers and family members, as well as graphic raw footage taken on Oct. 7 from both festival-goers and Hamas militants. In addition, survivors of the massacre such as Meir and Sassi will be at the exhibit every day to share their stories and answer questions. Their goal, Meir said, is to show New Yorkers that the horror they experienced could happen to anyone.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Tour of New York City Hall
One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
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10:00 am
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Film | Quo Vadis (1951): religious epic
Returning from a military campaign abroad, General Marcus Vinicius discovers that a new religion has taken hold in Rome: Christianity. When Vinicius encounters Lygia, a follower of the strange religion, he quickly becomes smitten and tries to win her affections. Lygia is reluctant due to their differing beliefs. Complicating matters is the crazed Emperor Nero, who blames the Christians for his own burning of Rome, beginning a wave of persecution. Director: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
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11:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut: Exhibition Tour
Co-curators behind the scenes of Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk through the exhibition's artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park
Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Wildlife Outing in the Park
A wildlife outing to discover the flora and fauna that make the park ecologically rich.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park
Come on by and tap your toes to The Big Apple's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists around! Featuring special events and performances by distinguished musicians. Today's pianist: Ted Rosenthal.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Somewhere to Roost: Exhibition Tour
A tour of the current exhibition led by Luce Assistant Curator Brooke Wyatt. \ Featuring paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures, the exhibition explores the ways that artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.” Taken both literally and metaphorically, Somewhere to Roost represents spaces where artists live and work, as well as places remembered, imagined, or dreamed. The exhibition highlights experiences of immigration, incarceration, and housing insecurity, as well as visions of home that are playful, inventive, and unexpected.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Urban Farm Tour
Take a tour to learn about how they grow produce and support local wildlife in the heart of downtown New York City.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Excerpts of From Hell to Antigone for Voice, Violin, Violoncello, and Harpischord (In Person AND Online!)
Jeffrey Mandelbaum, countertenor, as Admeto; Nicole Besa, soprano, as Antigona; Kristin Renee Young, soprano, as Alceste; Francis Liu, violin; Serafim Smigelskiy, violoncello; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord, perform excerpts of From Hell to Antigone, Opera Essentia's new 70-minute Distillation of Handel's Admeto, from 1727. This steamy love triangle saga unfolds in bittersweet beauty, one aria after another. Betrayal, longing, jealousy, and bewilderment just scratch the surface. A curse reversed, a rejection amended, but then she's back from the dead... how can a heart survive it all??
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | Wonka (2023) with Timothee Chalamet and Hugh Grant
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers. Director: Paul King Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Grant, Olivia Colman Timothee Chalamet is an American and French actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Film Awards. Hugh Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a more dramatic character actor. Among his accolades, he has received a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Hike | Spring Wildflower Hike
Explore which plants are in bloom in our parks! Learn how to identify different species of flowers and pick up some botany basics on this engaging and educational hike.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Evening Birding Tour
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season, with guided tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. The park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow!
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Alma Allen: New Sculpture
The exhibition brings together a combination of new sculpture in bronze, cast in the artist’s foundry, and works carved from stone sourced from areas surrounding his studio in Tepotzlán, Mexico. Realized with hybrid processes both ancient and cutting-edge, Allen’s sculptures are imbued with a timeless quality while conveying a dynamic range—from works defined by their refined formal simplicity to those brimming with complex gesture. Allen approaches sculpture by devising a series of formal parameters to foster pre-conscious and intuitive decision making via the hand, a process that complements his research into ideas relating to the structure of the physical world. This new body of work evolves various compositional and material directions explored in Allen’s recent institutional exhibition Nunca Solo at Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico City, demonstrating the artist’s ongoing experimentation into the ability of matter to embody contemplations on free will, consciousness, and the nature of time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Chrysalis: Multimedia Group Exhibition
An exhibition of multimedia work by eight students selected by a jury of their peers. The artists visually articulate transitions between one state of being and another through drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture. Exploring the exciting potential or devastating implications of change, the works on view consider these moments as opportunities for inflection. Topics covered include cultural expectations of individuals, political propaganda, psychology and the body as evidence of metamorphosis. These thresholds are a time of discovery, but such developments always hold a cost to those involved. This group exhibition surveys contemporary humanistic issues while asserting that outcomes should not overshadow the process of becoming.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Farkhondeh Shahroudi: of weeping trees
This show showcases new and older works ranging in media including drawing, video, sculpture, textiles, artist books, and more across nearly 30 years of Shahroudi's practice. Evoking and reframing colonial materials and motifs such as rubber and the so-called "Oriental" rug respectively, the title of this exhibition calls forth reoccurring themes present in the artist’s oeuvre such as identity, language, family, and psychology. In her practice, Shahroudi inhabits the space between, around, and beyond language. Taking up the tradition of automatic writing, she inhabits inclusion through her process of painting her mother tongue Farsi with her dominant right hand, and distantiation of German, deliberately slowed down by writing with her left hand. Understanding all her work as three-dimensionally materialized poems, Shahroudi abstains from explicitly recounting the history of her migration from Iran to Germany in 1990, where she has lived ever since. Rather, memory, in her work, operates as a more subtle thread weaving between the political and a childlike coyness. Playfully integrating language constructions containing simultaneous elements of absurdist humor and moments of grief, Shahroudi invites us to come up with our own associations; akin to providing us with a tool – much like a tuning fork – that enables us to listen to the echoes of a multiple present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Foxy Brown (1974) with Pam Grier
Unable to pay back the $20,000 he owes the mob, small-time hustler Link instead gives up the identity of an undercover cop who happens to be dating his sister, Foxy Brown. When gangsters later kill the cop, Foxy is quick to make the connection and swears vengeance. Posing as a prostitute, and with the help of a group of neighborhood vigilantes, she gradually tracks down the hit men, their Mafia bosses and her own brother. Director: Jack Hill Cast: Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe Pam Grier is an American actress and singer. Described by many as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation, and women in prison films. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Jamie Nares: Nares Traces
The exhibition will examine over 120 works on paper in a variety of media—namely oil, ink, and enamel—made after refocusing her artistic attention from film to painting in the early 1980s. Coolly perceptive, Nares’ works on paper share the same conceptual focus on movement, rhythm, and measurements of time that has driven the artist's various bodies of work over the last fifty years. This exhibition points to paper as an essential instrument in Nares’ ongoing exploration of these themes.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Living in th Moment of Abstract Art: Group Show
With: Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Carol Barsha, Ernest Briggs, Seymour Boardman, James Brooks, Peter Bonner, Charles Clough, Buffie Johnson, Michael Loew, Louise Nevelson, Richards Ruben, Jon Schueler, and Thomas Sills The artists in this exhibit had respect for earlier forms of art. Their development grew from this background and art patrons who exposed them to the importance of other historical forms of expression. Thus, we have abstract art.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Tobi Kahn: Memory & Inheritance:
An exhibition opening featuring an informal talk by the artist about his first solo museum exhibition in New York City in more than ten years. Memory & Inheritance contemplates ritual, tradition, and memory, both personal and collective. Tobi Kahn’s luminous paintings and his singular Judaica, more than four dozen in total, will be shown in the Museum’s historic synagogue home, inviting reflection and meditation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with NYC's Emergency Management Commissioner Zachary Iscol (in-person and online)
Person Place Thing Host Randy Cohen in a wide-ranging conversation with Emergency Management Commissioner Zachary Iscol
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Baroque Works (In Person AND Online!)
Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble; Avi Stein, organ, perform works by Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1630s-1680), and others.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Dancing | Dance Party: Latin Festival
Superb bands and expert dance instruction 6pm: Dance Instruction with Jorge Riascos 7pm-10pm: Live Dance Music with La Charanga Pacha and Jimmy Bosch Salsa Masters Cuban percussionist Miguelito "Pacha" Pozo arrived to the United States in 1958 at the age of three. Pacha soon took up percussion, focusing on the timbales. At the age of thirteen, he competed in a Tito Puente contest and earned 2nd place; soon after, Pacha began playing with bassist Glen Vargas in the band La Contraria in New York City. In 1976, Pacha began to play with New Jersey band Orquesta Realidad, then teamed up with flute extraordinaire Jose Antonio Fajardo in 1980. Pacha recorded live and in the studio with Fajardo Y Sus Estrellas until Fajardo's death in 2000. Pacha rejoined the band playing guiro in 2001 under the direction of Fajardo, Jr. Pacha has shared the stage with many greats in Latin music, including Tito Puente, Machito, Larry Harlow, Tipica '73, Orquesta Broadway, and many more during his long career.
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Storytelling Jazz Trio
An evening where jazz transcends music to become a narrative, as Austrian vocalist Heidi Krenn takes the stage together with pianist Ray Gallon and Cameron Brown on the bass. This trio doesn’t just perform; they tell stories. Their concert is more than a musical journey—it's an exploration of jazz’s enduring legacy. Experience the intimacy of voice, piano, and bass in a dialogue that redefines the timeless allure of jazz.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Long Island by Colm Toibin (In Person AND Online!)
Twenty years after the events of Brooklyn, it is the spring of 1976 and the Irish expat Eilis Lacey is now married to Tony Fiorello with two teenage children and living on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, among Tony’s parents and his brothers and their wives and children. The huge extended family lives together, works together, eats and plays together. One day, an Irishman comes to the door and tells Eilis that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. Long Island is the story of what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news. Colm Toibin speaks with Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, who is currently a fellow at the The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and publishes in 2024 her novel The Alternatives, a portrait of a family perched on our collective precipice.
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Instant Art of Morris Katz
“Painting,” according to Morris Katz, “is like shmearing a bagel.” A genuine performance artist, his standard routine would be to line up two dozen canvases and paint them all within the span of an hour – using only a palette knife and toilet paper – all the while cracking jokes and explaining his craft to rapt audiences. Called “a self-contained vaudeville act” by New York Magazine, Katz holds a unique place in the annals of the art world as a painter who not only worked with incredible speed – whipping up paintings within just minutes – but who did so while engaging his audiences with Borscht Belt style shtick and then auctioning the paintings off to all comers. Celebrate the launch of the exhibition with a reception.
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Baroque Works (In Person AND Online!)
Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble; Avi Stein, organ, perform works by Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1630s-1680), and others.
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Concert | A Musiciand and a Visual Artists in New Multimedia Performance
The world premiere of a new multimedia performance by Anna Luisa Petrisko with projection mapping and interactive design by Ana Carolina Estarita-Guerrero. The performance features a live music set with voice, synthesizer, percussion, and sampler by Anna Luisa. Her spiritually infused ambient textures with tropical-inspired beats make up her signature mutant pop, and hypersaturated analog video art creates an immersive and colorful space. Estarita-Guerrero activates the visuals with projection mapping and interactivity using Microsoft Kinect data, computer vision, and real-time video processing. Don’t miss this thrilling joint effort between two artists who are passionate about community, cooperation, and the transformative power of pushing their own and each other's boundaries.
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